Seattle History: Depression, New Deal (1929 - 1940)

December 31, 1975

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

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Montlake streetcars soon to be a memory: The Montlake bridge tender would not see this familiar sight much longer after 1940, the approximate year this photo was taken. Streetcars that carried thousands of football fans to Husky Stadium over this span disappeared, as they did soon afterward from many of Seattle’s streets.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

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Montlake streetcars soon to be a memory: The Montlake bridge tender would not see this familiar sight much longer after 1940, the approximate year this photo was taken. Streetcars that carried thousands of football fans to Husky Stadium over this span disappeared, as they did soon afterward from many of Seattle’s streets.